Dmitry Balikhin
Senior Application Security Architect
Greater Ottawa Metropolitan Area Canada
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Top SchoolDmitry Balikhin is a Senior Application Security Architect with nine years of focused product and application security experience built on an extensive software development background. He designs and operationalizes pragmatic security programs—authoring standards, selecting and tuning SAST/SCA/secret-scanning tooling, and embedding risk-based practices into fast-moving engineering teams. At Take-Two Interactive he shaped product security for game and platform teams, pairing threat modeling and cloud baselines with offensive testing oversight to prioritize real-world risk. Known for hands-on mentorship and running Security Champions programs, he translates security strategy into developer-friendly processes and training. Comfortable across AWS, GCP, Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines, he bridges engineering, product and SOC detection work to deliver usable controls. A lifelong learner with a master’s in Math/Computer Science, he brings the pragmatism of a seasoned developer to complex security architecture and tooling decisions.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Physics-Math, Physics-Math at Tver secondary school №29Master's degree Math / Computer Science, Master's degree Math / Computer Science at Tver State University
English, Russian
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Github Skills (101)
security10
code-analysis10
scanner10
static-analysis10
code-analyzer10
json10
analyzer10
security-scanner10
detector10
security-testing10
static-analyzer10
scanning10
dotnet9
owasp9
mapper9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dbalikhin/ApplicationInspector
Jan 2021 - Mar 2023
A source code analyzer built for surfacing features of interest and other characteristics to answer the question 'What's in the code?' quickly using static analysis with a json based rules engine. Ideal for scanning components before use or detecting feature level changes.
Contributions:2 PRs, 23 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 1 month
characteristicscode-analyzersecurity-toolsinterestdetecting
dbalikhin/security-code-scan
Oct 2021 - Jun 2024
Vulnerability Patterns Detector for C# and VB.NET
Contributions:14 PRs, 39 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years 8 months
securitydetectorvulnerabilitypatternsvb-net
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